The Vancouver Courier's story, from its beginning as the tiny
independent Eburne News in 1908, to its current status as Canada's largest
distribution community newspaper, mirrors the vibrant city it has served
for more than nine decades.

The paper changed hands three times in the last 10 years---purchased first
by the national Southam chain, which recognized its profitability and
local market share; then by international media giant Hollinger, which
saw the Courier as the plum in a deal that included a dozen or so other
B.C. community newspapers; and finally by Canwest Global, which views
the Courier and our Lower Mainland sister papers as perfect vehicles to
augment its radio, television, print and Internet properties in the new
century.

The Now is the only newspaper to serve the entire region of
Surrey, White Rock and North Delta.

Arriving on 110,000 doorsteps every Wednesday and Saturday, The Now has
the highest circulation of any community newspaper in the Lower Mainland
and Fraser Valley.

Among them, the Surrey, White Rock/South Surrey and Cloverdale Chambers
of Commerce, the Canada Cup International Women's Fastpitch Tournament,
the Surrey Chamber of Commerce Parade of Lights, the Cloverdale Rodeo,
the Rotary Clubs of the region, the Spirit of the Sea Festival, the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals and various regional hospital
foundations.

The Now is part of the Van-Net group of newspapers and is published by
South Fraser Publishing Ltd., a division of Lower Mainland Publishing,
Inc., a CanWest Company, Suite 201, 7889-132nd Street, Surrey, B.C. V3W
4N2

Established as the lifestyle and entertainment weekly in Vancouver
for over 30 years, the Georgia Straight is an integral part of the active
urban West Coast lifestyle with a per issue readership in excess of 369,000.

Every Thursday, the Georgia Straight delivers an award-winning editorial
package of features, articles, news and reviews.

CanadaComputes.com is the Web site of Canada Computer Paper,
Inc., the largest circulation computer publisher in Canada.

Our mission is to be the Internet meeting place for Canadian consumers
and businesses to learn, use, buy and sell computing technology.

For over fifteen years, our sister print publications The Computer Paper
and Toronto Computes!

For our readers, CanadaComputes.com is truly a one-stop shop for technology
information, while for advertisers and sponsors, the site offers a highly
qualified readership, adept in computer technology and constantly interested
in the best solutions for business, education and family computing.

This section of the site has been designed to help you find information
about our company and to direct any questions you may have about a topic
to the proper person.

It's a competitive world out there and the Burnaby NOW competes
successfully and helps its advertiser's to do so too.

Burnaby NOW has been named "Most Community-Minded Community Newspaper"
in all of North America two consecutive years (1997 & 1998) by Suburban
Newspapers of America, and once in all of Canada (1995, second place 1997),
by the Canadian Community Newspaper Association.

We are proud to report the news and information essential to, and wanted
by Burnaby residents in award-winning style; and from junior-most reporter
to editor to publisher we are immediately accessible to our public.

This quadrant contains a concentration of destination shopping (three
major malls, another under construction, two major hotels and Metropolis
at Eaton Centre, the Lower Mainland's first entertainment-only mall) with
high rise residential density unequaled in the Lower Mainland on a same
area basis.

Welcome to the News on the Net, your source on the Web for
everything Abbotsford.

From breaking stories to in-depth features on issues that affect all of
us; from the latest sports highs and lows to opinions from Victoria, Ottawa
and beyond, the Abbotsford News online is where the city turns to for
the most comprehensive coverage.

Now, Abbotsford's newspaper of record is the city's choice in cyberspace.

Read our stories, browse our site and let your voice be heard in our questions
of the day and week.

The Abbotsford/Mission Times began publishing in 1984 as the
Teletimes in Abbotsford and Chilliwack.

The original publishers, the Wonnacott family, felt they could provide
an alternate source of information for readers and a new opportunity for
advertisers to reach markets dominated for years by Hacker Press.

In the spring of 1986 the Now Times Group was formed when Madison Venture
Corporation, owners of four newspapers publishing under the Now nameplate,
acquired controlling interest in the Times.

From an editorial standpoint, editors and publishers have the ability
to establish editorial style to best meet the needs of their community
rather than being forced to produce 'cookie-cutter' products.